NKPS: Netherlands Kinship Panel Study is a large-scale, nationally representative, multi-actor, multi-panel study on kinship in the Netherlands. In 2002, the first wave of data was collected, followed by the second wave three years later, a third wave in 2010 and a forth one in 2014.NKPS is also the Dutch implementation of the international Gender and Generations Programme GGP, a research infrastructure devoted to the study of the causes and consequences of demographic change, including changes in family dynamics, gender relations and relationships between generations. The GGP was founded in 2000 by a consortium of European institutes, statistical offices and universities under the umbrella of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).